and ronald reagan is the governor at the time supports it. as a black panther strategy of self-defense became more and more effective of mobilizing members of the black community, the panthers attracted even greater attention among authorities. on april 5, 1967, assemblyman mull ford introduced a bill in the california legislature proposing to outlaw carrying a loaded weapon. >> to understand where the panthers were coming from this that period, immediately after slavery, in the period of reconstruction, the first thing people do is they try to take the guns out of the african-american community so the community can then be disempowered and oppressed. what i'm saying is there's a natural affinity for the notion that i have the right to secure myself among many african-americans but we're going to a kind of -- >> in the history of this -- the history of this is very important. this is the jim crowe laws, the original gun laws throughout the south. the jim krou laws which established all of the laws against ownership, against carrying in certai